Figure 1: % of students achieving a proficiency level below 2 in reading by gender, USA, UK, New Zealand, Japan, Canada and Australia, 2012
Source: OECD StatExtract.
Low performers in reading by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
15 Jul 2015 1 Comment
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Gender gaps and reversing gender gaps in education
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A perspective on the overweening conceit of youth
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Does education pay in New Zealand?
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New Zealand teachers’ unions are above average in their effectiveness
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Scientific Misbehavior in Economics and Publish or Perish
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The political bias of psychologists
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Why is it that the economics profession is the only profession questioned on the grounds of its political diversity?
1) Academic psychology once had considerable political diversity, but has lost nearly all of it in the last 50 years;
2) This lack of political diversity can undermine the validity of social psychological science via mechanisms such as the embedding of liberal values into research questions and methods, steering researchers away from important but politically unpalatable research topics, and producing conclusions that mischaracterize liberals and conservatives alike;
3) Increased political diversity would improve social psychological science by reducing the impact of bias mechanisms such as confirmation bias, and by empowering dissenting minorities to improve the quality of the majority’s thinking; and
4) The underrepresentation of non-liberals in social psychology is most likely due to a combination of self-selection, hostile climate, and discrimination.
via Psychology’s Political Diversity Problem | Psychology Today.
The evolution of global warming scepticism
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Nobel-Winning Scientists are Getting Older
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Why Nobel-Winning Scientists are Getting Older:
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The graduate premium for New Zealand is at the bottom of the OECD ladder
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The evolution of the scientific method in climate science
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Top performers in science by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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Why are Japanese 15-year-old girls as good at science as teenagers anywhere else in the world?
Figure 1: Percentage achieving the proficiency level 5 or higher in sciences by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, 2012
Source: OECD StatExtract.
Top performers in maths by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
01 Jul 2015 5 Comments
in economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, Japan, lost boys, reversing gender gap
Figure 1: Percentage achieving the proficiency level 5 or higher in mathematics by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, 2012
Source: OECD StatExtract.
Kids Create Cafeteria Black Market To Bypass Food Nannies
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